Although somewhat slower in practice on most machines than a well-implemented quicksort, it has the advantage of a more favorable worst-case O ( n log n ) runtime.

Although the specific impulse of an electric thruster itself optionally could range up to where mass drivers merge into particle accelerators with fractional-lightspeed exhaust velocity for tiny particles, trying to use extreme exhaust velocity to accelerate a far slower spacecraft could be suboptimally low thrust when the energy available from a spacecraft's reactor or power source is limited ( a lesser analogue of feeding onboard power to a row of spotlights, photons being an example of an extremely low momentum to energy ratio ).

Although real time, measurement of the kinetics of protein folding are limited to processes that occur slower than ~ 10 Hz.

Although this 20 MHz chip was many times faster than ENIAC, it was still many times slower than modern microprocessors of the late ' 90s.

Although he was an obvious selection to tour England, Bradman's unorthodox style raised doubts that he could succeed on the slower English pitches.

Although much slower than the Thalys, it was popular with budget tourists: some rail passes are not accepted on Thalys ' services and one could save the costs of a hotel stay overnight.

Although many songs hold true to their hardcore-punk roots (" Generator ", " Tomorrow ", " Fertile Crescent "), select tracks suggested the band moving towards a slower, more experimental route (" Two Babies In The Dark ", " The Answer "), as well as a much darker one (" Atomic Garden ").

Although the 34 was very reliable and dominant on the battlefield, its dissemination throughout the German forces was hampered due to its precision engineering, which resulted in high production costs and a relatively slower rate of production.

Although computationally slower than the Black – Scholes formula, it is more accurate, particularly for longer-dated options on securities with dividend payments.

Although some live CDs can load into memory to free the optical drive for other uses, loading the data from a CD-ROM is still slower than a typical hard drive boot, so this is rarely the default with large live CD images, but for smaller live CD images loading the filesystem directly into RAM can be highly practical.

Although the machine's speed was slower overall ( adds were 42 μsec ), throughput could be greatly improved.

Although slower than many other gundogs, such as Pointers, the Weimaraner is thorough and this made it a welcome addition to the sportsman's household.

Although the process may have been slower than in other regions, the centuries of contact with Vulgar Latin, after a period of bilingualism, completely extinguished the native languages, leading to the evolution of a new variety of Latin with a few Gallaecian features.

Although this works, it can cause some security problems ( see security risks ), and will be much slower than other possible solutions.

Although the team initially hoped he could be ready for the start of the season, the rehabilitation was slower than expected.

Although the algorithm is slower for most architectures when compared with the direct approach, it is more numerically stable.

Although there are specialist seamers that make deliberate use of Off cutter and Leg cutter at the expense of bowling slower than regular fast bowlers, most bowlers employ the seam to some effect and so the terms " seamer " and " fast bowler " are largely synonymous.

Although the larger ships are more powerful and durable, they are also much slower and less maneuverable.

Although it introduced a couple of new abbreviations and reintroduced some short forms that were missing in Diamond Jubilee, it eliminated several other short forms, and was in the main simpler, longer, and slower than the previous editions.

Although she had given up her immortality by marrying Trevor, this Wonder Woman was still aging at a much slower rate than her husband and sometimes met the Earth-1 Wonder Woman.

Although the reelection of Thaksin and his Thai Rak Thai party in an unprecedented landslide in February demonstrated the widespread popularity of his policies, slower economic growth ( 4. 5 % in 2005 ), has given ammunition to critics of Thaksinomics.

Although Voce was somewhat slower than Larwood, his line, from left-arm over the wicket, and the steeper bounce that he obtained from his height, made him formidable enough and the batsmen got no relief when facing him.

Although the compiler is slower than comparable ones for non-extensible languages, it has been used for practical production work.

Although their units are usually slower when compared to Freedom Guard counterparts, they are able to outmatch Freedom Guard units with increased armor and firepower.

Although the tidal currents within Western Passage surrounding Old Sow compare with faster whirlpools elsewhere, the speed of Old Sow's vortex is considerably slower than Moskstraumen, the world's most powerful whirlpool.

Although a lens can precisely focus at only one distance at a time, the decrease in sharpness is gradual on each side of the focused distance, so that within the DOF, the unsharpness is imperceptible under normal viewing conditions.

Although the Fresnel lens was invented in 1822, it was not used in the U. S. until the 1850s due to the parsimonious administrator of the United States lighthouse establishment, Stephen Pleasonton.

Although a Dutch spectacle maker created the compound lens and inserted it in a microscope around the turn of the seventeenth century, and Galileo had applied the principle of the compound lens to the making of his microscope patented in 1609, its possibilities as a microscope had remained unexploited for half a century, until Robert Hooke improved the instrument.

Although named after Dutch astronomer Willebrord Snellius ( 1580 – 1626 ), the law was first accurately described by the Arab scientist Ibn Sahl at Baghdad court, when in 984 he used the law to derive lens shapes that focus light with no geometric aberrations in the manuscript On Burning Mirrors and Lenses ( 984 ).

Although all the above lens types — sclerals, PMMA lenses and RGPs — could be correctly referred to as being " hard " or " rigid ", the term hard is now used to refer to the original PMMA lenses, which are still occasionally fitted and worn, whereas rigid is a generic term that can be used for all these lens types: hard lenses ( PMMA lenses ) are a sub-set of rigid lenses.

Although the lens does not restore normal color vision, it allows some colorblind individuals to distinguish colors better.

Although many brands of contact lenses are lightly tinted to make them easier to handle, cosmetic lenses worn to change the color of the eye are far less common, accounting for only 3 % of contact lens fits in 2004.

Although the materials are the same, the manufacturing processes by which the respective contact lenses are made is what differentiates a " daily disposable " lens from a lens recommended for two-week or 4-week replacement.

Although they have less flexibility than monorail cameras, modern field cameras tend to have most camera movements for the front standard, i. e. lens rise / fall / shift / tilt / swing, but are usually more limited in back movements, sometimes having only tilt / swing.

Although many cameras of the mid nineteenth century were wooden and " boxy " in appearance with a brass fitted lens on the front they should not be confused with the mass produced box cameras that exploded in popularity after the introduction of the first Kodak.

Although the lenses appear similar in layout, there is a lot more to the design and performance of a lens than simply the layout of the glass elements.

Although this means that it is not possible to focus the beams nearly as tightly as for light, it also means that the aperture or " capture area " of even the simplest, omni-directional antenna is greatly larger than that of a lens in any feasible optical system.

Although the camera was capable of ' capturing ' motion, it wasn't a complete success because each lens photographed the subject from a slightly different viewpoint and thus the projected image jumped about.

Although the optical format size bears no relationship to any physical parameter of the sensor, its use means that a lens that would have been used with ( say ) a four thirds inch camera tube will give roughly the same angle of view when used with a solid state sensor with an optical format of four thirds inch.

Although Frazier reshot the footage in question with the FrazierPanavision lens the patent was declared unenforceable for inequitable conduct and attorney's fees were awarded to the defendants.

Although the Nikon F3AF ( 1983 ), Pentax ME F and Chinon CE-5 already had presented autofocus single lens reflex cameras, autofocusing could not be achieved without the use of special motorised AF lenses.

Although eye-cups can usually be folded down to allow the spectacle wearer to get closer to binocular eyepieces, there are sometimes lens mountings that do not allow the theoretical eye relief to be obtained.

Although there is no clear beginning or end of a microlensing event, by convention the event is said to last while the angular separation between the source and lens is less than.

Although distortion can be irregular or follow many patterns, the most commonly encountered distortions are radially symmetric, or approximately so, arising from the symmetry of a photographic lens.

Although Night Man has no other superhuman powers on his own, he owns a special bulletproof bodysuit that gives him several abilities, including flight, holographic camouflage-style invisibility and advanced sight functions through the round red lens over his left eye including the ability to see in the dark and fire a laser beam.